That's excellent Lobster!
Now I feel I can go ahead and compile some more things.
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One other thing that may be of use is a virtual usb drive (please excuse me if you already know this!)
I make a partition whatever size I want (usually 512Mb) and put any files I want to access within qemu onto it. Then I dd it to an img file and add this to my start-up script:

Code:

-hdb <path to usb.img>

You can then mount this as a drive and read /write to it. There may be an easier way to do this, but that's how I have been doing it._________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
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I've had a go at compiling some other things (I think bcrypt is okay, but I haven't checked it fully yet). I have had problems with ROX - to do with some dependencies that I have not yet got installed.

Does anyone know if there's a suggested "sequence" in which to build packages. I'd rather not rely on much more from the Arch repo than I already have. I'm going to have another look at Barry's site and see if it makes more sense.
mark_________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"RacyPy" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
RaspberryPy: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.

Does anyone know if there's a suggested "sequence" in which to build packages. I'd rather not rely on much more from the Arch repo than I already have. I'm going to have another look at Barry's site and see if it makes more sense.
mark

You seem to be compiling properly. I use src2pkg for more simple apps. I believe Amigo has a non-puppy src2pkg version as well.

For apps that don't work with src2pkg, I use the traditional:

./configure --help ( sift through the options and figure out what you need to add )
./configure [add your options]make -jX
( where "X" represents the number of cpu cores you have, eg dual-core would be make -j2 )
make install DESTDIR=/pathname/of/your/choice

Create your own .desktop entry for the app, if it doesn't come with one
Then, trim the folders of whatever is not needed
Next, strip and/or upx if you want to make the binaries smaller
Also, Iguleder's "splitpkg" tool can split the folder into separate categories for DEV, DOC and NLS pets. I've read that new2dir has a similiar option.

Thanks for the parameters for qemu. I don't have much free time for it today, but will be sure to try it out sometime on the weekend.

The above should work for a lot of apps, as long as you have all of the needed dependencies for it installed. But adding or removing certain options can make the package less bloated, maybe more responsive, and sometimes results in less dependencies needed for the package to run.

Antiloquax, I tried your puppi.img in qemu and managed to login as root.
However, I can seem to get X running at the moment. And how did you get a window that says "Qemu" in the titlebar? This is just a quick report; I will try some more tommorrow...signing off after this message. When I run "startx", I get the following error messages:

Hi Tman,
I don't think the JWM warning is the problem here. I get that as well, I must have made some mistake in my .jwmrc, but it doesn't ususally stop X from starting.

I'll get back to you when I've seen if I can sort this out.
mark

As for the "qemu" title bar. That's just how it has always looked since I installed it!_________________My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
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When I boot it up and login, X starts automatically.
I'm not sure why it didn't work for you. Let me know if you have any more information, or if you do get it going!
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